Posted on October 4th, 2008 by Walter Brasch
by Walter Brasch
The vice-presidential debates proved one thing. At the very least, Sarah Palin can be trained.
For several days, she had camped out in one of John McCain’s Arizona houses, where she underwent Debate Boot camp conducted by drill instructors who make Marine DIs appear to be slaggers.
With a few “darns,” “betchas,” and “ya”s, Palin [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
In an interview this morning on CBS’s “The Early Show,” Senator Hillary Clinton said “Barack Obama is going to be elected the next president and that she has “no doubt” about it.”
Clinton also said that while she recognizes that race and gender play a role in the minds of voters as they make their presidential [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The McCain campaing has been pulling some really ugly stuff out of the old Rovian playbook in the past couple of days. The NY Times Editorial Board explains more:
The presumptive Republican nominee has embarked on a bare-knuckled barrage of negative advertising aimed at belittling Mr. Obama. The most recent ad compares the presumptive Democratic nominee [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Poor old John… Apparently, John McCain is “anxious to counter the blanket media coverage” that Barack Obama received on his trip to the Middle East and Europe and so now McCain is “weighing whether to announce his running mate in the coming weeks before the spotlight shifts to China and the opening of the Olympic Games next month.”
Now [...]
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Posted on May 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Senator Ted Kennedy was hospitalized this morning after suffering from stroke like symptoms. He was rushed by ambulance and initially hospitalized at Cape Cod Hospital and then airlifted to Mass General in Boston.
Kennedy spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter says that “Kennedy has been hospitalized in Boston after suffering a seizure,” rather than a “stroke as initially suspected.”
Cutter [...]
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